Time 6 hours
Time Taken 20 hours

Aims

• Assess the state of the UI
• Control Flow
• Draw up plans for a new UI
• Implement new UI
• Testing

This stage is the beginning of the enhancements. Must check spelling etc.

Delays
Lack of a coherent development plan for the UI

Result
The UI was assesses by using third parties and a new UI was implemented. The control flow was drawn up. The main issues encountered in the UI phase was that there was no clear route of development and this led to a significant increase of defects. This was possibly one of the most challenging parts of the development cycle. Significant effort had been put into the rest of the project and so this phase was often at risk of over engineering the final product. It was consequently difficult to determine when to do a feature freeze and this is a failure of the aims for this milestone. A final iterative series of testing and coding aimed to iron out the last of the bugs and caught a large number of defects after spending time away from the code.